Front cover -- A Focused Issue on Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: identifying, building, and linking competences -- Part I: Identifying, building, and linking competences -- Part II: The intellectual structure of the competence-based perspective -- Part I: Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences -- Chapter 1. Competences, istinctive competences, and core competences -- Introduction -- Background -- Research Design -- Distinctive competences and competence outcomes -- Distinctive competences as a distinctive pattern of competences -- The nature of a core competence (and core distinctive competence) -- Issues in sustaining core distinctive competences -- Concluding discussion -- The research in context -- Future researchquest -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 2. Managing the interaction of exploration and exploitation: Ambidexterity as a high-order dynamic capability -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives -- Discussion -- Further research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. The factors affecting the relationship between strategic options and the competence building process: an empirical examination -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Hypotheses -- Methodology -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. The coevolution of alliances and industries: How industry transformation influences alliance formation and vice versa -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Research design and methods -- Results -- Summary and outlook -- References -- Chapter 5. The role of distributed competences for standard-setting communities: the case of industrial automation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The industry's knowledge landscape -- 3. The cases of PROFIBUS and IO-link -- 4. The emergence and control of competence-distribution patterns -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes.

References -- APPENDIX A. Patent sample (years 1995-2005) -- APPENDIX B.IPC analysis for PROFIBUS and IO-Link -- data tables -- APPPENDIX B. Suggested keywords for future analyses -- Chapter 6. Challenges for differentiators combining modularization and competence renewal -- Introduction -- Challenges from modularization using the example of the automotive industry -- Research status -- Empirical analysis -- Outlook -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- APPENDIX. development, testing, and implementation of the content analysis -- Chapter 7. Recursive advancement of competence-based business management and its conceptual modeling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of the theoretical bases for the system design task -- 3. Three recursive systems for advancing the competence-based business management and its conceptual modeling -- 4. Conclusions on the recursive advancement of competence-based business-management models -- References -- Chapter 8. An expanded view of ''management processes'' in the systems view of organizations -- 1. The competence-based approach -- 2. Management processes in the organization as an open system: marketing, strategy, and organization -- 3. The marketing process -- 4. The strategy process -- 5. Organization -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part II: The Intellectual Structure of the Competence-Based Perspective' -- Chapter 9. The intellectual structure of the competence-based management field: a bibliometric analysis -- Introduction -- The authors -- The papers -- The references -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix.